American Ulysses: a life of Ulysses S. Grant

Formation, 1630-1848. "My family is American" ; "My Ulysses" ; West Point ; "Dear Julia" ; "By treaty or the sword" ; "Army of invasion"

Trial, 1848-1861. Panama ; "Forsaken" ; "Hardscrabble" ; Galena

Transformation, 1861-1865. "I am in to do all I can" ; Belmont ; "Unconditional surrender" ; Shiloh ; William Tecumseh Sherman ; "More than forty Richmonds" ; Vicksburg ; Chattanooga ; "Washington's legitimate successor" ; "Battle of the Wilderness" ; Robert E. Lee ; Petersburg ; Appomattox

Reconstruction, 1865-1868. "I will keep my word" ; "More & more radical" ; "Let us have peace"

President, 1869-1877. "Gold panic" ; "A radical change in Indian policy" ; "Foreign relations" ; Ku Klux Klan ; "The Gilded Age" ; "Malfeasance!" ; Centennial crisis

World citizen, 1879-1885. American ambassador ; Grant & Ward ; Final campaign.